Per a release from the company Clean Line Energy Partners, the Moberly meeting is one in a "series of meetings...inviting local businesses to come learn about the Grain Belt Express Clean Line transmission project."

The Grain Belt Express Clean Line is a "700-mile overhead, direct current transmission line that will deliver 3,500 megawatts of low-cost wind power from Kansas to Missouri, Illinois, Indiana, and states farther east," the release notes.

Other locales listed as hosts for meetings concerning the Line are Mexico, Chillicothe, and Hannibal.

"Clean Line is committed to using qualified local and regional contractors in Missouri to assist in the development, construction, and maintenance of the transmission line, whenever possible," the release says. The company states that they "would like to meet local businesses involved in surveying, geotechnical engineering, aggregate and concrete, construction equipment rental, trucking and fueling, clearing and grading, restoration services, road construction, and many others that could support the transmission line project."

Benefits from the project are expected to be felt through the addition of "thousands of construction jobs and hundreds of manufacturing and operation jobs in Missouri and the surrounding region," as well as through "property taxes, [reduced] air pollution and water usage, and [the deliverance of] low-cost clean energy."

The Grain Belt Express Clean Line is expected to originate in Ford County, Kan., and to end near Sullivan, Ind.